Wide screen plugin for Leopard Mail released

Dane Harnett has released a widescreen plugin for Leopard Mail, which gives Mail.app an “Entourage” or “Outlook” look.

It is not as polished as Letterbox , the first and best of the widescreen plugins developed for Tiger Mail.

Aaron Harnly is working on the Leopard version , but if you really can’t wait, and plenty of people seem to think that this is the bees’ knees of email functionality, WideScreenMailPlugin will do the trick.

In essence it shifts the preview pane from the bottom to the right-hand side of Mail.app’s interface:

WideScreenMailPlugin is freeware and available from the developer’s web site .entourage, mail.app, apple mail, outlook, widescreen, hack, plugin

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• Letterbox (widescreen plugin) for Leopard
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• WideScreenMail plugin gets two-line preview
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Tags: Apple Mail, entourage, hack, mail.app, outlook, plugin, widescreen

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7 Responses to “Wide screen plugin for Leopard Mail released”

1. John says:
   November 6th, 2007 at 4:10 am

   I am dying with out widescreen Mail but I’m completely Terminal inept. Can someone help me out?

2. Les Posen says:
   November 6th, 2007 at 10:10 am

   This isn’t ready for prime time, I’m afraid. Trying to resize panes is a pain. Just removing the bundle doesn’t cut it, and without instructions on returning Mail to normal ops. pending Letterbox will cause much grief.

   Pass on this for now…

3. John says:
   November 6th, 2007 at 12:23 pm

   They updated it to include an installer and uninstaller package. No more terminal grief!

4. ncus says:
   November 6th, 2007 at 1:09 pm

   Woot…. Now if only i have leopard installed :(

5. Chase Browder says:
   November 6th, 2007 at 6:21 pm

   I think it is pretty great! and so far works better than letterbox did in tiger. i.e. columns don’t resize every time you search or change mailboxes

6. spd says:
   November 7th, 2007 at 4:00 pm

   Thanks for letting us know about this. It works very well for me, though it does seem to slow down the launch time a little. Still, much faster than Entourage, which is why I switched back to Mail. The new features in Leopard are great.

7. Dane Harnett says:
   November 7th, 2007 at 5:30 pm

   Hi guys,

   Thanks for downloading the plugin.

   Just wanted to let you know that we have updated the plugin with the hotly anticipated feature of a two line message list!

   Grab the plugin from our site!

   Thanks

   Dane

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